Hello - I have a Travelscan 464 which, at present, does not work with SANE. On the sane-backends page ( http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html ) the scanner is listed as unsupported. Manufacturer is Syscan, USB id is 0x0a82/0x4600 and the information given is:
"Not supported. LM9832. Some information is available. See link for details." The link ( http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/syscan-travelscan-460.html ) gives, among others, this information: "As these scanners use a LM9832 chipset, they might be supported by the Plustek backend in future. Patches are welcome." Searching around I found out that someone tried before to make it work, with results like mine: ( http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2003-February/006665.html ) sane-find-scanner finds the scanner; scanimage doesn't. Now, if I had the time, I could try to write a driver on my own, but I really don't, I have to study too much now, and I really need that scanner to work. This might sound very unusual, but if someone from the list would like to write a working driver for that scanner, I would pay them 100 euros, to be sent by PayPal. If anyone is interested, please contact me in private to fcardone - a t - tlen - d o t - pl. I know the scanner costs more or less the same, but I have been using OSS since 1992, linux almost from the beginning, and sometimes people should get nice rewards for their OSS work. And of course, the driver will too be released under GPL, open source, etc etc. I would just be paying for the time spent, I don't want to "own" the program. Of course, "free" help is also very nice, but since I have really very little time now, I would prefer to get something which I could just ./configure, make and make install, rather than keep trying, e-mailing someone, waiting a few days for the answer, e-mailing back, etc etc. We all know how these things are :-) Thanks in advance, Flavio
